Speakers in the News: 2.26 - 3.1
Leigh Bureau speakers are always working on incredible things. Every Friday, we bring you a weekly roundup of the most impactful writings, releases, and appearances from our speakers.
New this week from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and prolific bestselling author Anna Quindlen is After Annie, a poignant look into how a family pieces itself back together after loss. Quindlen has made a name for herself with her signature way of capturing the complexities of family, friendship, and womanhood with an authenticity few others have mastered. After Annie, a powerful story of love, loss, and what comes next, may be the best example of this yet.
Read: After Annie Excerpt
Now that advances in artificial intelligence already supercharge algorithmic recommendations, making them even more addictive, there is an urgent need for new governance structures oriented toward the “common good” (rather than a narrowly conceived notion of “shareholder value”) and symbiotic?partnerships between business, government, and civil society. Fortunately, it is well within policymakers’ power to shape these markets for the better.
41 states and the District of Columbia have sued Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over the harm these social media platforms cause young users. In a new piece for Project Syndicate, economist Mariana Mazzucato presents a 5-pronged approach—involving both government policy changes and reformed business practices—that can make these platforms beneficial for more than just shareholders. The goals is to create an environment that rewards long-term value creation rather than maximizing user engagement by any means necessary for short-term profits.
His deeply attentive ways of exploring and explaining the world — first as a journalist and author, and now in audio — makes his work so distinct.
As the co-founder of Pushkin Industries and the hosts of podcasts such as Revisionist History and Broken Record, Malcolm Gladwell is a force in the podcasting world. Today at On Air Fest, he receives the well-deserved 2024 Audio Vanguard Award in recognition of his contributions. He joins the ranks of radio greats who have also won the award such as former All Things Considered co-host Audie Cornish, Ira Glass of This American Life, Terry Gross from Fresh Air, and Radiolab's Jad Abumrad.
Generative AI can be used for far more than writing essays and creating images. A new paper from Anima Anandkumar et al., featured on the cover of Nature magazine, reveals their new tool NeuralPLexer outperforms the popular AlphaFold2 in its protein structure prediction. Work of this nature paves the way for faster and more effective drug discovery.
Read: State-specific protein–ligand complex structure prediction with a multiscale deep generative model
The New York Public Library has named investigative journalist and bestselling author Tom Mueller a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for his latest release How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine. The award recognizes nonfiction books written by working journalists that raise awareness of current events or societal issues that impact readers. How to Make a Killing is an an exposé on the harms of America's for-profit dialysis industry that serves as a microcosm of the country's broken healthcare system.
We all have days at work where we're feeling on top of the world! Other days leave us feeling crushed under it. What if every day could be your best day at work? What if achieving peak performance every day wasn't left to chance, but rather a technique that could be practiced and mastered? That's what Optimal by emotional intelligence experts Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss teaches. In a new piece, Goleman explains that it starts with managing our ability to focus.
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